God answers our prayers "from above." We do not have to answer our own prayers. How wonderful it is to realize our personal weariness and perplexity do not affect the outcome. God is neither tired nor perplexed. All strength and wisdom reside in the Lord Jesus. He sends down strength from the sanctuary in Heaven.

He lifts us—personally. God knows every detail of our life. Deliverance, transformation, resurrection—all are accomplished on a personal, individual basis. The overcomers, God's warriors, always are addressed one at a time. It is never to them who overcome but "to him that overcometh" (Revelation 2:7).

There will be no "sea" of people on the new earth. In the new world that is coming there will be no undifferentiated mass of mankind, no mob of people, no multitude that can be driven by spiritual winds. Each individual will be known to the Lord and to the Lord's ruling saints.

When we pray for deliverance God draws us out of many waters. There are times during our pilgrimage when a number of problems come upon us. The future appears to be grim and joyless.

Then we cry to the Lord. We do not give up or yield to voices that counsel us to various actions. We cry to the Lord. We pray until He comes. When Jesus appears He draws us out of many waters. He delivers us from all our fears. He delivers us from all our varied afflictions (although there may be one or two that He leaves for a while for our perfecting).

We must remember not to measure God's ability to deliver us by our own standard of what is possible and what is not possible. God created the universe and He does as He will in Heaven and on the earth. All things are possible with God. If all the oceans of the world were to cover us it would be as nothing to God to dry them up. We do not have to summon the strength and wisdom to answer our own prayers. Let us trust in God Almighty.

To be continued.